SEUI chief Andy Stern:
When you have higher wages, people aren’t poor, they get to eat, they get to live a better life and have a social safety net.
That’s the fallacy of unionization right there. People who have a job are better off. But what about people who don’t have a job? They’re not [...]
Paul Copan busts some “First Christmas” myths over at Reclaiming the Mind.
There would have been no inns in a backwater town like Bethlehem. They would be found along main roads or in cities. The word for inn (katalyma) is the same one as the “guest room (of a private home)” [...]
This story just breaks my heart. A 7-year old girl who was so neglected that she became a “feral child” — completely unable to relate to other people, process emotions, or relate to the world.
“I’ve been in rooms with bodies rotting there for a week and it never stunk that bad,” Holste said [...]
I saw an interesting article about the sociology of sex recently: Red Sex, Blue Sex. Specifically, the difference in attitudes between “red” communities and “blue” communities. One observation in particular really jumped out at me.
Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the [...]
Life Before Death:
When my western friends talk bad about Arabs, I think of places like UAE or Qatar where we are extremely welcome and safe. The idea that we are in a global religious war is untrue. Certainly there are wars unfolding that have religious basis, but this is not World War [...]
See, this is why I never read drug labels.
Research has shown that expecting to feel ill can bring illness on in some instances, particularly when stress is involved. The technical term is the “nocebo effect,” and it’s placebo’s evil twin. “It’s not a psychiatric disorder — it’s the way the mind works,” says [...]
I’ve heard before that shale oil was energy intensive. In fact, that’s the most frequent criticism I’ve heard. But I had no idea it was this energy intensive:
Environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council have called oil shale one of the planet’s dirtiest fuels. It can be converted into liquid petroleum, [...]
I think this is basically how I would react if someone tried to steal my laptop.
Arizona State University student Alex Botsios said he had no problem giving a nighttime intruder his wallet and guitars. When the man asked for Botsios’ laptop, however, the first-year law student drew the line. [...]
A genetic mutation may hold an AIDS cure.
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease. The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, [...]